burnt - use in sentences
Preposition: at
- stake: She was tried for witchcraft, found guilty and burnt at the stake and her grandson was banished from the moor.
Preposition: out
- shell: John Lewis, the big department store in Oxford Street, was left a burnt out shell, only the walls were left standing.
- car: The burnt out getaway car was later found in Milton Keynes.
- vehicle: We passed burnt out German half track vehicles, in some cases the stench of bodies which had been burned filled the air.
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- get: Dont get sun burnt or drunk too much tho this may take some avoiding.
Modifies a noun
- offering: Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither host thou honored me with thy sacrifices.
- sienna: Beige, brick, bronze, buff and burnt sienna: boring brown by any other name.
- umber: For a deeper color burnt umber may be added.
- daub: These pits also contained significant amounts of domestic refuse including animal bones, burnt daub and burnt flint.
- flint: Even in the woods, Ju finds more flint and Roman pottery... One of the many burnt flints found across the survey area.
- toast: However the fire alarms may be set off by burnt toast.
Modifying Another Word
- badly: Thomas Wright, who was got out next, was very badly burnt.
- partially: With raw files from my 1Ds it handles partially burnt out highlights in a much more graceful way than Photoshop ACR.
- partly: Shortly after our arrival we had left my wife's uncle's [ Michel Vlasto ] partly burnt and icy house.
- severely: It only take fractions of a second for a child to get severely burnt.
- sometimes: Bone, particularly fish and sometimes burnt, was very common within the residue while CBM was quite common.
- slightly: I have examined his face and hands which are slightly burnt, by the explosion in the pit.
Used with adjective complement
- get: Last time I got burnt to a crisp " everywhere " was in Miami, lying on a rooftop at 110 degrees.
- feel: I would leave there feeling burnt to a crisp - I had no energy.
Preposition: by
- sun: It is especially important to avoid getting burnt by the sun.
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